Spring Snow!

[Betty Bolerjack]

We woke up to 3" of snow this morning! It's beautiful & WET! It was spitting snow off and on thru the day yesterday. By 5:00, it was becoming more visible. I saw big flakes hitting the roof of the house and sticking there for a while before melting. It didn't really get serious until later in the evening. I looked out shortly after midnight as I was heading for bed (the first time! LOL) and we had at least 1/2" in the back yard. Everything was white! I could see it coming down. Later, when I couldn't sleep, I looked out again and saw that it was even heavier, but the flakes were smaller. Mark measured the snow on the patio table out back and it was 3" deep. Even the members of the "I Hate Snow" Club would probably not mind this one too much. In Oklahoma right now, we'll take moisture any way we can get it!

I'll post some pictures later. I have to get a little girl off to school right now and then take Mom to the doctor.

[Betty Bolerjack]

These first pictures were taken around 10:00 this morning. The snow had already started melting. I wish I had taken some last night, but it was getting so late, I wanted to get to bed. It sure was pretty, though.

The first two pictures are our backyard. You can see the tree is already budding out.

The third picture is a bush next to the neighbor's house. It was taken from our bedroom window.

The fourth was also taken from our bedroom window and is a tree that is in our neighbor's yard but sort of between the houses.

The fifth is one of the hollies in our courtyard. We pruned them way back a few weeks ago (it's called hat-racking) because they were just getting way to big and had an awful lot of dead stuff on them. I thought this one was very interesting the way the snow just kind of perched on top of the stump.

[Betty Bolerjack]

More pictures. These were taken around noon while Tamara and I were waiting for her school bus. The snow was probably about half gone by then. It is almost completely gone now and the sun keeps peeking out, but it's still pretty cold out.

First picture is looking east on our street. No, that is not my sign in the neighbor's yard! They had a good friend that they have know for years who is a Realtor. Someone in my office sold it, but unfortunately, it wasn't me. :basic04

Next is looking west on our street. You can see that a lot has melted.

The front of our house.

Tamara had to have her picture taken!

The vine on the fence was greening up quite nicely. I thought the snow on it was very interesting. Again, the snow just kind of sat on top of the fence post.

Another view of the vine.

OK.. That's it for the snow.

[Gina Stevenson]

Betty, I had to get tickled when looking at these pictures ... you're funny ... as if we hadn't seen enough snow for enough months that we're ready for it to be over. BUT I looked, anyway, because you're a friend! :p

You see, here, the flakes we saw yesterday ... and the flakes we saw today ... they're supposed to get "really serious" tonight, so that we might wake up to some tomorrow, too. ENOUGH already, I say!!!!!!!!!!!:rolleyes:

'Still a staunch member of the IHS club [yea, Pete! ha!] ... except for Christmas Eve. ;)

Now they should've finished loading so I can go back to the thread & see the one of Tamara, too; that & a couple of others hadn't yet loaded when I started this note. ;)

[Edith K. Thurmond]

Betty, I had to get tickled when looking at these pictures ... you're funny ... as if we hadn't seen enough snow for enough months that we're ready for it to be over. BUT I looked, anyway, because you're a friend! :p



Gina, you are funny, too! When I saw Betty's post, I could identify; however, I did think that our OK excitement about the beautiful snow might be a bit amusing to you people up north. :) It really was a gorgeous sight and one we don't see very often. The most wonderful thing, though, was receiving that moisture we so desparately needed. As she said, it is now melted and is in the ground. That is cause for rejoicing!

Smiles to you, (who lives with snow)

[Betty Bolerjack]

Well, Gina, if you had been watching major wild fires on the news for the past several months (with lots of people losing their homes) because of a severe drought, you'd be posting pictures of the snow, too! Hey, it's a big deal here, anyway, 'cuz it's really late in the season! Hmmm... watching the news and just realized I shoulda sent some to Rick's Pix! They might have made the news!

[Gina Stevenson]

OK, Betty ... the pics loaded, so I got to see the one you said was there of Tamara. It's cute ... looks like she's happy to see snow ... big smile & all [tho' it's not a close-up, I saved it, then zoomed in in "preview" mode, so I could see that big smile really well.

OKC was on the news here tonight; sounded like y'all might have gotten some ice mixed in with that snow ... or was that ice later in the day, after the snow melted? You see, I just saw it in passing, so didn't get the details.

[Betty Bolerjack]

See, Gina! It really is a big deal! LOL We even made the news in your snowy neck of the woods!

I didn't hear about the ice mixed with the snow. It wouldn't have been after the snow melted. I know there was a big accident on one of the Interstates that was weather related. I didn't catch all the details on that so I'm not sure just what happened. I did hear them say everyone was okay. I'm thinking that it was probably a bridge or something that iced over. This stuff was melting as it was hitting the ground so the roadways would have been wet to begin with. That means it would have frozen when the temps got low enough. And, nobody around here seems to know how to drive in the stuff!

[Jim Franklin]

Betty and Edith, after having had a course in Weather and Climate I have been most interested in keeping track of the weather patterns. Back in 1974 or 75 I watched all three commercial network channels in OKC. Gary England and the others were all predicting rain in late March and I was aware that at the time we were under a warm humid air mass from the Gulf but that there was a cold front moving southward south of the Kansas border and another one chasing it half way down Kansas so I told my wife that it was going to snow about 3" and when we got up the next morning that is just what we had. The area looks a lot like the area we lived in in Bethany, first on Oakridge and then later on 29th west of Rockwell. The house on Oakridge we bought from Johnny Westmoreland.

[Gina Stevenson]

Well, we didn't get up to any snow, afterall ... cold, tho'! It's still just "trying to" ... predicted to keep trying for awhile, I guess ... "few snow showers" they call it ................

HERE COMES SUMMER ........ there was a song like this once ... wish it would come true, and soon! ;)

See, Gina! It really is a big deal! LOL We even made the news in your snowy neck of the woods!

I didn't hear about the ice mixed with the snow. It wouldn't have been after the snow melted. I know there was a big accident on one of the Interstates that was weather related. I didn't catch all the details on that so I'm not sure just what happened. I did hear them say everyone was okay. I'm thinking that it was probably a bridge or something that iced over. This stuff was melting as it was hitting the ground so the roadways would have been wet to begin with. That means it would have frozen when the temps got low enough. And, nobody around here seems to know how to drive in the stuff!

[Virginia Stimer]

Reading this thread brought back memories of the years that I spent in Oklahoma City. You are right when you say that people in Oklahoma do not know how to drive on snow and ice. But then I have seen some pretty stupid stuff here in Michigan.

The time I remember most was when I drove across town to attend a monthly nursing association meeting only to learn that the meeting had been cancelled. I was a fairly new attender and no one thought to call our hospital and tell us it was cancelled. I got to the meeting with no major trouble and got back to Deaconess safely.:fav18

We had some snow here today but it did not stay around long.

Virginia:fav16